postmaster

postmaster

The electronic mail contact and maintenance person at a site
connected to the Internet or UUCPNET. Often, but not
always, the same as the admin. The Internet standard for
electronic mail (RFC 822) requires each machine to have a
"postmaster" address; usually it is aliased to this person.
See also webmaster.

The return of thousands of forms to the Department of Social Protection is the latest stage in the battle over the future of the network, with postmasters already stepping up to run in the next General Election.

Of the LDP's eighteen lawmakers who were elected as individual candidates in the national proportional representation (PR) district, the top, second-, fourth-, sixth-, seventh-, and eleventh-place finishers in terms of the number of votes received were the official representatives of the postmasters associations, agricultural cooperatives, medical groups, and other interest groups that at one time stood at the heart of the LDP's electoral machine (Asahi Shimbun, July 22, 2013).

Prior to the privatization, initiated by then Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, family members of postmasters and retired postmasters worked for collecting votes for the LDP as the party's "most powerful vote-gathering machine.

This is the end product of years of hard work, and is a tribute to the bipartisan statesmanship and leadership of Chairman Tom Davis (R-VA), Ranking Member Henry Waxman (D-CA), and Representatives John McHugh (R-NY) and Danny Davis (R-IL)," Steve LeNoir, president of the League of Postmasters said today.

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